Almost all seekers of the meaning of life met with the name of the Indian philosopher, sage, great yogi and guruji - Jeddah Krishnamurti. He is one of the brightest spiritual teachers of the last century. Once he moved away from public activity, although he was revered by almost the entire world elite, including Nobel laureates, heads of state and other representatives of the intellectual niche.
Krishnamurti, like any other righteous sannyasin who tried to convey the words of God to society, did not strive for popularity, but to be heard not only by the so-called high society, but also by the rest of the population of our planet.
Childhood
The future spiritual teacher was born in India on the 11th day of the last spring month, 1896, in a small town called Madanapalle. Little brahmacharya appeared in the family of an employee of the Tax Department. The Jeddah Krishnamurti family was quite rich, since its members belonged to the highest caste - the Brahmins (there are four official castes in India).
His father was a member of the Theosophical community, and his mother was a Hare Krishna, in fact, in honor of the god Sri Krishna, they named their son. Plus, Jeddah Krishnamurti was the 8th child in the family, like Lord Krishna. Once his mothers made a prediction that her youngest son, still in the womb, will receive excellent karma, he will be special. Then she decided that it was necessary to give birth to him in the temple: in the room intended for prayers. It was a truly out of the ordinary situation. Where has it been seen that in the sacred house of God have children?
Immediately after the birth of the future Indian philosopher, Jeddah Krishnamurti, an astrologer was invited to him, who made a natal chart for the baby. He then confirmed once again that the boy would become a great man, although in the early years of his life it was hard to believe.
Jeddu Krishnamurti was a very weak and sickly child. He suffered from distraction and excessive reverie. He was not at all interested in school activities, which is why teachers began to think that he was simply underdeveloped or mentally retarded. But the boy also possessed strong features, for example, observation. He could watch the life of insects for hours.
The main quality of Jeddah was undeniable generosity. There were times when he gave his books and textbooks to children living in poor families. And if his mother gave him sweets, then he ate only a small part, and distributed the rest to his brothers and friends.
The amazing abilities of young Krishnamurti
Krishnamurti began his acquaintance with the Vedic scriptures during his campaigns in the temple with his mother. There he discovered the secret meaning of the epic Mahabharata. And when his sister died, Jeddah opened the gift of clairvoyance. Then he began to see her in the same place on the home garden plot. After that, another mother who had gone into the world was added to the visions.
Among the flowers, he often could observe beautiful Apsars, and sincerely did not understand why the rest could not see this, therefore, all further remarkable events in his life no longer surprised him.
Krishnamurti and Theosophical Society
In 1909, the young philosopher had already begun to practice his personal teachings and gained supporters from celebrities. Jeddah Krishnamurti was seen by one of the significant members of the Theosophical community - Charles Leadbeater, who saw his aura that was different from other people. According to his analysis, Jeddah stood out with an absolute lack of selfishness. He confirmed for the third time that in the future the boy will be able to influence the surrounding community by becoming a spiritual teacher.
And already at the age of fourteen, Jeddah was introduced to the head of the Theosophical community named Annie Besant and two spiritual Tibetan teachers. All three confirmed his important mission in this life. They said that it is necessary to educate and train the boy according to European standards, but without the slightest pressure on his spiritual component. As a result, Krishnamurti became a member and member of the esoteric part of the community. For several months he went on astral travel, writing his insights on paper. Then a book was published on his memoirs, which was translated into 27 languages. But the most striking impression was the invitation to the Great White Brotherhood. This happened after another astral trip to the home of one of the Tibetan teachers.
Krishnamurti and the Order of the Star
By 1911, Krishnamurti, under the auspices of the leader of the Theosophical Society, founded the International Order of the Star of the East. The main idea was to unite all those who believed in the coming of the world Spiritual Teacher. During this period, Jeddah continued his studies in Europe, and the order grew in number. By the 30s of the last century, Jeddah was leaving for California, where his most intense spiritual development began.
After visiting India, he continues to conduct educational activities and even wants to become a sannyasin, that is, to renounce all worldly things. However, over time, he developed his own philosophy regarding how a person should develop. According to the ideas and teachings of Jeddah Krishnamurti, problems in life can be solved without any gurus or mentors. He said that there was no need to seek any mediators in order to gain spiritual freedom, and there was no need to perform various rituals, worships and ceremonies in order to know oneself and draw close to God.
Dissolution of the Order
Based on the opinion of Krishnamurti, truth has no specific paths, and faith is originally born within a person and does not need followers, therefore there is no need to create orders, sects, or even religions. You can only organize your personal faith through active meditation on Jeddah Krishnamurti, which is not secret knowledge, but the person himself is a hidden book, his inner treasures are available only to him and to no one else.
Moreover, Jeddah announced that there was no point in a collective search for happiness and truth. Over the course of a few years, the order fell to a level where all participants were waiting for the next enlightenment from their Messiah. In their opinion, he should have endowed them with special knowledge instead of leaving for personal self-development. Therefore, Krishnamurti decided to dissolve the organization, because of which he lost almost all his followers, because the participants in the Theosophical community could not accept such a simple truth. Only Annie Besant was left with him .
As a result, after the dissolution of the order, Jeddah settled in California and lived a quiet, calm life until 1947. But even here he was not left without wanting to get a little enlightenment. For example, Charlie Chaplin and Greta Gabo began to follow his teachings.
Krishnamurti's personal life
Despite the fact that Jeddah was a spiritual teacher, he decided not to suppress his feelings of love, especially when he met a beautiful American woman in 21 of the last century. Unfortunately, this did not lead to anything serious, and they parted. Further in his life, Rosalina Williams appears, who has made an irreplaceable contribution to the opening and development of the Happy Valley school. However, they do not stay with her for long, Rosalina eventually marries a friend Krishnamurti.
Life after death
The teacher died of the most terrible disease of the modern world - cancer, in 1986. The tumor appeared in the pancreas, but it happened already at the age of ninety years. At the behest of the sage, after cremation, his ashes were scattered over Indian lands, in Great Britain and the USA, where he was revered the most.
During his long life, the philosopher managed to write a whole collection of books. Jeddah Krishnamurti has opened several schools in different countries of the world, this includes both Broadwood Park and Happy Valley. Today, the foundation left by Krishnamurti helps to open schools in the territory of his homeland - the mother of India. And his teachings are distributed by followers in the form of audio and video materials.
The basic philosophy of the sage
If you read the quotes and aphorisms of Jeddah Krishnamurti, you can see that he urged to abandon the desire to follow any authoritarian teachings and try to listen more to yourself, your inner Self, your Soul. To become happy, he said, one must be free. Freedom does not mean the attachment of the mind to various images, concepts, systems and fantasies. Today we are trying to find some kind of Messiah who will say what to do and what not to do, but this is not the right path to self-knowledge.
I don’t want to teach you anything, I only want to be a lantern and shine for you so that you can see better, but then you must decide for yourself whether you want to see what you are looking for.
He believed that only in independent study of one’s inner self can a person know the true destiny, therefore he denied any form of religion.
He said: "You are the society that you always talk about. Our entire surrounding world, the whole community that fills it, depends on a particular person. However, difficulties arise when each person begins to divide himself into the Ego or" observer "and" observable ".
The complete bibliography of a sage
Absolutely all collections of books by a sage are a kind of philosophical doctrine, the meaning of which is described above. Some books were published thanks to the remaining Krishnamurti diaries, others were created on the basis of transcripts and notes of open lectures given by the teacher during his lifetime.
In the book Freedom from the Famous, Jeddah Krishnamurti directly tells his readers: “I have nothing to teach you.” And this is true, since all knowledge is inside us from the very first day of the birth of our bodies and reborn souls.
Now almost all books can be found in translation into Russian. Therefore, you should know the collection that has accumulated over many years:
- "On the most important. Conversations to Jeddah K. with David B."
- "Conversations with Krishnamurti. Favorites."
- "Notebooks".
- "Freedom from the famous."
- "Beyond violence."
- "The only revolution."
- "Change immediately."
- "At the feet of the teacher."
- "First and last freedom."
- "The beginning of knowledge."
- "Bombay conversations."
- "Comments on life" in three books.